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Since 1967, The Fortune Society has helped thousands of formerly incarcerated people successfully reenter the community.

Trinity Church Wall Street has awarded $20.84 million in grants to nonprofits, many of them focused on fighting for racial justice in New York City through ending the cycles of mass incarceration and mass homelessness.

Trinity Church Wall Street has awarded more than $9 million in grants to faith communities throughout the U.S. and the world. Grants will fund projects with direct social impacts through expanded health care, student housing, and leadership development within the Anglican Communion.

The United Nations estimates that there are more than 82 million people worldwide who can be described as forcibly displaced. “I had known about things, piecemeal, but not the worldwide picture, and I was appalled,” said Marilyn Green. “I started to form the idea of a piece that addressed the situation of the refugee.” The sacred dance Humankind is scheduled for presentation online December 3, 2021.

Jesus does not want us to be afraid. Rather, he calls for us to be alert. How do we stay awake and present with God, even as the difficulties of this world continue to spin around us?

Christ’s Kingdom is no ordinary kingdom: It expresses the fullness of God’s love and justice. It is not established by fear or by force; it challenges oppressive power and wealth; it upends the image of the distant monarch.

In partnership with Union Theological Seminary, a world-renowned graduate school in New York City known for its commitment to rigorous scholarship and social justice, Trinity designed the Trinity Union Scholars program to provide a one-year exposure to world-class theological education for students from India and China. The program is designed for those who show the extraordinary capacity to become church leaders and/or seminary professors.

All Saints is also a day when we welcome the newest Christians into the church through the sacrament of baptism and we recommit ourselves to our faith. It is a time when the past, present, and future connect and the Baptismal Covenant calls us again to what we are to do as Christians.

Trinity Church Wall Street celebrates the return of public baptisms at the 9am Holy Eucharist on Sunday, November 7, 2021.

Simply put, hospitality is not a choice for Christians at all; it is a sacred obligation. It is a Gospel warrant. It is in and through hospitality that we meet, experience, and encounter God in our daily life and work.